04 Joseph Campbell said, “If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that, no one can do who has not learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and the sorrowful joy of life as it is.” We are alwaysContinue reading “December 10, 2020”
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December 09, 2020
03 Joseph Campbell asked, “What are you going to do well?” There is our art, our gift, and our life. What are we going to do well, when it doesn’t matter? When no one is going to notice, or know? When it amounts to nothing more than “divinely superfluous beauty”? There is our art, ourContinue reading “December 09, 2020”
December 08, 2020
05 Every time and place has its own mood, its own character, its own sense of being in, or out of, the flow– the Tao– of life and being Some places are so dead redemption and resurrection are out of the question. I have to get myself walked out of those places. I expect youContinue reading “December 08, 2020”
December 07, 2020
04 Doing what our life asks us to do, being who our life asks us to be, faithfully offering what is called for in each situation as it arises, providing what is needed in each moment, with compassion and kindness, sincerity and grace, without contriving some outcome, or seeking our advantage or gain, is toContinue reading “December 07, 2020”
December 06, 2020
03 The old Taoist saying, “Turn the light around,” says all we need to hear. It can be understood on different levels. Initially it was a directive to stop looking for illumination “out there,” in books, or lectures, or sutras, concepts, creeds, ideas, thinking, etc. and start looking for it “in here,” in realizations, recognition,Continue reading “December 06, 2020”
December 05, 2020
02 Preferences without expectations or demands will go a long way toward peace, balance and harmony. But. This works only where there is mutual respect for, and commitment to, the common good. Where that is lacking, that is where the police and the military come in. Everything depends upon our ability to enforce compliance toContinue reading “December 05, 2020”
December 04, 2020
04 We owe our life liege loyalty, filial devotion and devoted service through all the times and places, contexts and circumstances of our days upon the earth. Adam and Eve failed to do this, and served their wants and desires, but Abraham, Moses, Elijah and John the Baptist, Ruth, Ester, and Mary the mother ofContinue reading “December 04, 2020”
December 03, 2020
03 The Dalai Lama, speaking about the Chinese occupation of Tibet, said: “If, in any situation, there is no solution, there is no point in being anxious. If the forces at work have their own momentum, and what’s going on now is the product of what went before, and if this generation is not inContinue reading “December 03, 2020”
December 02, 2020
02 Joseph Campbell emphasizes the importance of creating a sacred space as a place to retreat from the world of normal, apparent, reality– in order to return to the center, amid the things that are central to “the harmonization of your own life.” A sacred space is a decompression zone, where we return to ourselvesContinue reading “December 02, 2020”
December 01, 2020
It comes down to attitude. Outlook. Viewpoint. Perception. Perspective. How we look limits what we see, casts what we see in a favorable or unfavorable light, tilts the table for or against, pro or con, my way or the highway. We tend to see in ways that favor what we favor and disfavor what weContinue reading “December 01, 2020”
December 2020
This Category contains all of my posts made in the month of December of 2020
November 30, 2020
03 Our mythology consists of the things we tell ourselves to adjust ourselves to the world, to life as it is, to the way things are. What do you turn to when you have nowhere to turn? What do you say to yourself about your losses and your sorrows? How do you find your wayContinue reading “November 30, 2020”
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